Exhibition finds

It’s amazing how being in London and having access to all of the art venues here is taking my understanding the visual arts, smashing it to pieces and resembling it.  Yesterday, I went to the Barbican Art Centre, which is the most comprehensive arts centre I’ve ever set foot in.  They have two art galleries, theatre stages, three cinemas, an art and music library and more.  It took decades to build the venue after the area was demolished during WWII.  It’s fascinating to see the juxtaposition of these new contemporary buildings next to surviving churches and whatnot that have been around for hundreds of years.

I went to see the Ron Arad’s exhibition. Arad is an Israeli born artist whose work ungulates between sculpture, furniture design and architecture.  Here are some videos from the exhibit that explain his work, which was really hard not to touch or climb on (thank goodness they had a interactive section of the exhibit to try out some of his furniture pieces).  The photo of this sculpture of his is kind of the odd duck given the theme of the show, but I seem to drawn to all things American while I’m not actually in America.

I also went to the second gallery to see Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s “Rhymths of Life,” which made me smile like possibly no other installation piece ever has.  You have to watch this video, which still doesn’t do it justice.  Birds playing hard rock, ha, I love it!